More keystroke shortcuts for legato types

Michael

05 Mar, 2016 07:09 PM

Hi,

It would be nice if the shortcut 'L' for Legato could be split
into 2 or 3 types 'h' for hammer-on, 'p' for pull-off, and 's' for
slide. I realize 'p' is already used for palm-mute, but I find I
don't need that as often as pull-off. Also would be could if the
'h', 'p' could be shown on the tab over the legato marker.

I like the current L shortcut for legato for a few reasons.
First, I believe legato is a better term for what is happening
musically -- hammer-on and pull-off are just the physical
techniques that are used on guitar to create legato. Also, whether
legato is a hammer-on or pull-off just depends on whether the
second note is higher or lower than the first one. Since the app
can check that automatically, it's more convenient for it to decide
for you whether it's a hammer-on or pull-off. It's also more
flexible when composing -- if you have a hammer-on from, say, 5 to
7, but you want to hear what it would sound like if it was instead
a pull-off from 5 to 4, then in addition to changing the 7 to a 4,
you'd need to swap the hammer-on for a pull-off.

You can add a slide with the shortcut Shift + L, which I prefer
to S because I believe the W H Q E S keys for setting durations are
very useful.

That said, I do want to one day make all of the keyboard
shortcuts customizable so they can be changed to suit your
preferences. But to be honest, I think it will be quite a while
before I can get around to that.